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No, it doesn't feel like 15 years have passed, Donny White said, but perhaps that's because being in charge of Virginia Military Institute athletics never felt like a job. When White announced last week that he would retire as VMI athletic director, effective this November, he did so after the same consideration from which he's made every decision since he took the position: the betterment of the school and the program. "It's a good time for me to step away," White said. "I think it would be helpful to have new energy here. They might not find anybody that loves it any more than I do, but to find new energy, that for sure would be good, and it would...

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